Toy cap pistol with cocking positioner



March 13, 1962 T. w. NICHOLS ETAL 3,024,558

TOY CAP PISTOL WITH cocxING PosITIoNER 6 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed MaIGh l0, 1959 JNVENTols am f 22%,

March 13, 1962 T. w. NICHOLS ETA. 3,024,558

ToY CAP PISTOL WITH oocKNG POSITIONER 6 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March lO, 1959 J J J. /Zmm 4U A@ 24M Mg, MN f A .c MJA fm U M 11G Md Y B MalCh 13, 1962 T. w. NICHOLS ETAL 3,024,558

TOY CAP PISTOL WITH COCKING POSITIONER Filed March l0, 1959 6 Sheets-Sheet 3 March 1.3, 1962 r. w. NlcHoLs ETAL 3,024,558

TOY CAP PISTOL WITH COOKING POSITIONER Filed March l0, 1959 6 Sheets-Sheet 4 March 13, 1962 T. w. NICHOLS ETAL 3,024,558

ToY CAP PISTOL wTTH cocKTNG PosITToNER Filed March 1o, 1959 e sheets-sheet 5 di; THM, 9";7

ATTORNEYS March 13, 1962 T. w. NICHOLS ET AL .3,024,558

ToY CAP PISTOL WITH COCKING PosITToNER Filed March l0, 1959 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 OQOQTQOQQQOQO l 3,024,558 Patented Mar. 13, l1962 This invention relates generally to toy guns.

lt has for one of its general objects to provide a more realistic toy cap pistol.

A specific object is to provide a new and improved toy cap pistol adapted to re a strip of caps with a double action, single action or tanning operation, so that the caps may be tired by repeatedly pulling and releasing the trigger, by cocking the hammer and then pulling the trigger, or by holding the trigger and tanning the hammer.

Another specific object is to provide a toy cap pistol capable of eticiently performing double action, single action and tanning operations and yet comprising relatively few parts that need not be made with great precision.

A further object of the invention is to provide new and improved means to positively feed and position a strip of caps to be tired.

A still further object is to provide new and improved means whereby the mechanism may be quickly and easily loaded with a roll of caps, the parts of the mechanism being capable of performing their functions immedately after loading.

It is also an object of this invention to provide a new and improved trigger and hammer combination whereby when the hammer is cocked for tiring, a very slight pull on the trigger will tire the pistol.

Other objects will hereinafter appear.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the toy pistol being fanned FIG. 2 is a sectional detail view disclosing the hammer pulled back by fanning FIG. 2A is a view from the opposite side of the pistol disclosing the parts in the relative positions shown by FIG. 2.

p FIGS. 3, 4, 5 and 6 are detail views illustrating the double action operation of the pistol.

FIG. 7 shows the relative positions of the parts just before the trigger is fully released.

FIG. 8 is a vertical section on the line 3 8 of FIG. 5.

FIG. 9 is an angular section on the line 9-9 of FIG. 5.

FIG. l is a detail view of the hammer.

FIG. 1l is a detail view of the trigger.

FIG. 12 is a detail view of the cocking positioner.

FIG. 13 is a detail view of the cap feeder.

FIG. 14 is a detail view of the cap holding device.

FIG. 15 is a view of a perforated cap strip with which the pistol may be used.

Referring to the principal parts of the pistol which are shown in their normal relative positions in FIG. 3 and in detail in FIGS. 10-14, these include the anvil 1 (FIG. 3), hammer 2, trigger 3, cocking positioner 4, cap feeder and cap holding device 6. The cap strip 7 may be of the perforated type, indicated in FIG. l5, and may comprise a roll mounted upon pin 7a. The strip is fed across the anvil 1 when the pistol is operated.

The hammer 2 is pivoted at 22a. The pivot hole is indicated at 22a in FIG. 10, and the pivot pin is indicated at 3241 in the other figures. It lires the caps by striking the anvil 1, andfit is operatively associated with the other parts hereinafter described.

The trigger 3 has a slot 3a therein to receive the pivot pin 3b. When the trigger 3 is pulled, the hammer 2 is moved back away from the anvil 1 and is then permitted to move forwardly to strike the anvil 1 and yfire the cap, this being the double action operation which is illustrated by FIGS. 3-6. When the trigger 3 is pulled to its pulled position, the hammer 2 may be farmed, this being illustrated by FIGS. 1, 2 and 2A.

The cocking positioner 4 is pivoted at 4a (FIG. 2A).`

In FIG. 12, the pivot hole is shown at 4a, and in FIG. 2A

the pivot pin is shown at 44a. As elsewhere herein stated,A the pivot pin may be the pin 3b on which the trigger is' pivoted, or if desired a separate pin may be provided. It has a pair of steps 4b and 4c adapted to successively engage the cocking pin 4d on the hammer 2 to releasably hold the hammer in a cap-loading position slightly away from the anvil 1 and in a cocked position, the latter position being shown by FIG. 5. When the trigger 3 is pulled after the hammer 2 has been cocked, the step 4c of the cooking positioner 4 is thereby disengaged from the pin 4d of the hammer 2 to permit the hammer 2 to move forwardly to strike the cap on the anvil. When the trigger 3 is held in its pulled position, as illustrated by FIGS. 2 and 2A, the cooking positioner is thereby held out of engagement with the pin 4d on the hammer 2 so that the hammer 2 may be fanned.

The cap feeder 5 is pivoted at 5a on the hammer 2.

In FIG. 10, 55a designates the pivot pin on the hammer, and in FIG. 13, 5a designates the hole in the cap feeder to receive said pin. The cap feeder 5 is reciprocated on the anvil l to feed the cap strip 7 across the anvil 1. It may be provided with a suitable catch Sb (FIG. 13) to fit in the perforations 7b of the perforated strip 7 (FIG. l5). Or if a strip which is not perforated is used, the cap feeder may be provided with a suitable engaging element in place of the element 5b to engage it and move it across the anvil.

The cap holding device 6 is pivoted at 6a, and it serves to hold the cap strip 7 on the anvil 1 so that the strip 7 will not move downwardly with the cap feeder 5. As elsewhere herein stated, the hole of the pivot 6a receives the pivot 32a of the hammer. In other words, the hammer 2 and the cap holding device 6 are mounted on the same pin 32a. As will hereinafter appear, the cap holding device is so mounted that it does not interfere with the upward movement of the strip by the cap feeder.

The hammer 2 is yieldably urged in a counterclockwise direction on its pivot 2a by the spring 2b, one end of which bears against the pin 2c on the frame 8 of the pistol and the other end of which bears against the pin 2d carried by the hammer 2, the spring 2b being wound about the pivot pin 2a.

The trigger 3, when it is in the fully pulled position, as shown in FIGURES 2, 2A and 6, is yieldably urged forwardly and downwardly by the spring 3c connected to the trigger at 3d and to a pin in the pistol'frame 8 at 3e. After the spring 3c urges the trigger 3 forwardly and downwardly to the position as shown in FIGURE 7, then the spring 3c urges the trigger 3 backwardly to the position shown in FIGURE 3. The slot 3a and trigger 3 allow this backward movement of the trigger 3.

The cocking positioner 4 is yieldably urged by the spring 4e toward the pin 4d carried -by the hammer 2, the spring 4e being connected to a pin 4f in the frame 8 of lthe pistol and to the cooking positioner 4 as indicated` at 4g. The spring 4e tends to rotate the cooking positioner 4 in a clockwise direction on its pivot 4a to `cau-se the engagement of the pin 4d by the steps 4b and 4c. The vpin 4a on which the cooking positioner 4 is pivoted maybe the same as the pin 3b on which the trigger is pivoted, ora separate pin may be provided.

The cap feeder 5 is urged toward the anvil 1 by the spring 5c. 'Ihis spring may be connected to the pin 2c in the `frame 8 of the pistol, and it may be connected to the cap feeder at d.

The spring 5c tends to rotate the cap feeder 5 in a counterclockwise direction on the pivot pin 5a, which pivot pin, as above stated, is carried by the hammer 2.

The cap holding device 6 is yieldably urged toward the `anvil 1 by Ithe spring 6b (FIG. 2A), which spring may be wrapped around the pivot pin 32a of the hammer 2, connected to the pin 2c and to the cap holding device at 6c. This spring urges the cap holding device in a counterclockwise direction (FIG. 3) on the pivot 32a. When the pistol is observed from the opposite side, as in FIG. 2A, the spring 6 will of course be urging the cap holding device in a clockwise direction on the pivot 32a.

The actuation of the parts by the springs having been described above, the actuation of the parts against the resistance of the springs will now be described.

Referring to FIG. ll, it will be noted that the trigger 3 carries a pin 3f. This pin actuates the cooking positioner 6. The trigger 3 also carries a pin 3g (FIG. ll) which engages the cam 2e on the hammer 2 to retrieve the trigger, and the trigger has a linger 3h to engage the cam 2f on the hammer 2 to cock the hammer.

The hammer 2 has a projection or bump 2g (FIG, 10) to engage the projection or bump 6d on the cap holding device (FIG. 14). The bump 6a. on the cap holding device is also shown in FIG. 9. The bump 2g on the hammer 2 and the bump 6a on the cap holder 6 are engaged when the hammer 2 moves forwardly, and this engagement tends to hold the cap holder 6 on the anvil to hold the caps in place. This is an additional urging, since the spring 6b also urges the cap holder 6 toward the caps. The anvil 1 has a shoulder la (FIG. 8, FIG. 4). The cap holding device 6 is loosely mounted on the shaft 2a, and when the hammer 2 moves rearwardly from the position shown in FIG. 3 to the position shown in FIG. 4, the bump 2g carried by the hammer engages the bump 6d carried by the cap holding device and pushes the cap holding device on the shoulder 1a (against the resistance of` spring 6b, FIG. 9, which yieldably urges the holding device toward the hammer), so that the holding device does not interfere with the upward movement of the cap strip by the cap feeder 5. When the hammer 2 reaches its cocked position (FIG. 5), the bump 2g releases the bump 6d so that the cap holding device 6 may slip off the platform 1a into engagement with the cap strip 7 to hold the strip on the anvil while the cap feeder 5 moves downwardly from the position shown in FIG. 5 to the position shown in FIG. 6. So there is no possibility that the caps will be pulled out of position by the cap feeder when it moves downwardly.

The cap feeder 5 has a projection 5e, and in the frame 8 of the pistol is a web 5f (FIG. 3, FIG. 13). When the cap feeder 5 moves downwardly, the projection 5e riding on the web 5f rotates the cap feeder 5 in a clockwise position on its pivot 5a (FIG. 3) to move the catch 5b away from the anvil 1 so that there will be a clearance therebetween for the strip of caps to be moved through when the pistol is loaded.

Referring to FIG. l, the numeral 9 indicates the barrel, the numeral 10 an imitation cylinder, and the'nurneral 1 1 that part of the frame supporting the cylinder. These elements 9, 10 and 11 may be pivoted to the remainder of the frame as indicated at 12 and normally held in place by the latch 13, which is pivoted at 14 and extends at 15 into ay suitable pocket in the frame and has a fingerpiece 16. When the fingerpiece 16 is depressed so that the end of the latch 13 is moved out of-the pocket in the frame, the `barrel 9, imitation cylinder 10 and frame 11 swing in a counterclockwise direction (FIG. l) so as to expose an internal plate on which the pin 7a is mounted, whereupon the roll of caps 7 may be placed upon the pin 7a, as indicated in FIG. 3. The hammer 2 may then be moved 4back slightly into its loading position, and it will be held in that position by the step 4b of the cocking positioner 4 engaging the pin 4d. The cap feeder 5 will `then -be in its lowermost position and will be held by the web 5f slightly away from the anvil 1. The cap holding device 6 will be held from the anvil by the engagement of the bumps 2g `and 6d. The hammer 2, cap holding device 6 and cap feeder 5 being thus slightly spaced from the anvil 1 to provide a suitable clearance, the cap strip 7 may be placed on the anvil 1. The barrel 9, imitation cylinder 10 and frame 11 assembly may then be rotated in a clockwise direction on the pivot 12 back into the position shown by FIG. l.

Now describing first the fanning operation which can be employed for extremely rapid tiring, and referring to FIGS. 1, 2 and 2A, the trigger 3 will be pulled` back to its pulled position shown in these figures, whereupon the hammer 2 may be fanned-that is, it may be moved back to a position equivalent to its cocked position and released, so that its spring will swing it forward on its pivot 32a to strike a cap on the anvil 1. It will be apparent from the foregoing description that the cap feeder 5 and cap holder 6 are operatively associated with the hammer 2, so that when the hammer 2 is pulled backwardly from a position adjacent the anvil 1 into the equivalent of `a cocked position, the cap feeder will be moved upwardly to move a cap to the firing portion of the anvil 1, and the cap holder will move toward the anvil 1 to lhold the. cap strip thereon when the cap feeder later moves downwardly.

The movement of the elements is such that the cap strip is moved a predetermined` distance each time the hammer is fanned, so that as the hammer strikes a fresh cap is on the anvil.

In the single action operation of the pistol, the trigger 3 is not pulled back. Instead, the hammer 2 is thumbed back into its cocked position. When this is done, the trigger 3 moves to a posi-tion close to its pulled position so that it can readily be pulled to re the pistol. This movement of the trigger is effected bythe cooperation of the retriever pin 3g of *the trigger 3 and the retriever cam 2e of the hammer 2. The movement of the cap feeder 5 and cap .holder 6 is .the same in the single action operation as it was in the fanning operation because the cap feeder 5 and cap holder 6 are operatively associated` with the hammer 2. When the trigger 3 is pulled, the cocking positioner is moved so that its step 4c is `moved out of engagement with the pin 4d, and the hammer 2 is then free to he moved by its spring to fire the cap. In this single action operation, as in the tanning operation, when lthe trigger is pulled to its pulled position, none of the elements interferes with the free striking movement of the hammer 2 to the anvil 1.

Referring now to the double action operation, il1us. trated by FIGS. 3-6, when the trigger 3 is pulled the finger 311 of the trigger 3 engages the second cam 2f of the hammer 2 to rotate the hammer 2 in a clockwise direction on its pivot 32a to cock the hammer. The hammer 2, thus Iactuated by the trigger, in turn actuates the cap feeder 5 and the cap holder 6. Then continued movement of the trigger 3 causes the pin 3f oarried by the trigger to engage the cocking positioner 4 so that the step 4c and the step 4b are moved out of the path of the pin 4d carried by the hammer so that the hammer is free to move in a counterclockwise direction to strike the anvil. When the trigger is released, it moves bodily downwardly and forwardly, and then backwardly, this movement being permitted by the slot and pin connection 3a, 3b to assume a position where it may be again pulled to effect a double action operation.

The invention is not limited to the preferred embodiment herein disclosed'.` Various changes may be made within the scope of the following claims.

We claim:

l. A toy cap pistol yadapted to :lire astrip of caps and having an anvil, a hammer, a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried by Said hammer, a, cap holding device engaged by said hammer, and a cocking positioner engaging said hammer; said hammer, when moved into its cocked and firing positions, serving to reciprocate said cap feeder to thereby feed the strip of caps across said anvil; said hammer, when so moved, also serving to move said cap holding device away from and toward said anvil to permit the movement of the strip of caps toward the firing position and to prevent the movement of the strip of caps back yfrom liring position; said positoner serving `to hold said hammer in such position that said hammer 'and said cap holding device will be slightly spaced from said anvil to permit loading of the cap strip, and yalso serving to hold said hammer in its cocked position with said trigger near its pulled position.

2. A toy cap pistol adapted to re a strip of caps and having `an avil, a hammer, a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried by said hammer `and a cocking positioner engaging said hammer; said hammer, when moved into its cocked and ring positions, serving to cause said cap feeder to feed the strip of caps across said anvil; said positioner serving to hold said hammer in such position that said hammer will be slightly spaced from said anvil to permit loading of the cap strip, and also serving to hold said hammer in its cocked position with said trigger near its pulled position.

3. A toy cap pistol adapted to nre a strip of caps and having an anvil, a hammer, a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried :by said hammer, anda cooking positioner engaging said hammer, whereby said feeder will feed caps to said yanvil in the path of said hammer and said hammer Will strike caps on said anvil, when said trigger is repeatedly pulled and released, when said hammer is cocked and said trigger is pulled, and when said trigger is pulled vand said hammer is farmed, said cocking positioner coacting with said hammer to hold said hammer in its cocked position.

4. A toy ycap pistol adapted to -iire a strip of caps and having an lanvil, a hammer, a ltrigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried by said hammer, a cap holding device engaged by said hammer, and a oocking positioner engaging said hammer, :and operating means to `caused said pistol to fire said caps when said trigger is pulled, when said hammer is cocked and said trigger is pulled, and when said hammer is fanned.

5. A toy cap pistol adapted to tire a strip of caps and having `an anvil, a hammer, -a trigger engaging said harnmer, a cap yfeeder carried by said hammer, a cap holding device engaged by said hammer and a cocking posi tioner engaging said hammer; said positioner engaging said hammer to hold said hammer in its cap loading position, land to hold said hammer in its cocked position; said trigger being near kits pulled position when said hammer is cocked.

6. A toy cap pistol adapted to re `a strip of caps and having an anvil, a shoulder on said anvil, a hammer, a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried by said hammer, la cap holding `device engaged by said hammer, and a cooking positioner engaging said hammer; said cap holding `device being held by said shoulder 'away from said anvil during cap feeding, and being moved by said hammer off said shoulder into its active position `toward said anvil to prevent the retreat of the caps from said anvil, said cooking positioner coaeting with said hammer to hold said hammer in its cocked position.

7. A toy cap pistol adapted to tire a strip of caps and having an anvil, a hammer, -a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap feeder carried by said hammer, a cap holding device engaged by said hammer, and a cooking positioner engaging said hammer, said feeder being carried by said hammer and said holding device being engaged by said hammer whereby said hammer is moved away from and toward said anvil, said feeder reciprocates to feed a strip of caps to :a ring position on said anvil, and said holding device prevents retreat of said strip of caps from said ,firing position as said hammer moves toward said anvil.

8. A toy pistol 'adapted to re a strip of caps and having an anvil, a hammer, a trigger engaging said hammer, a cap Cfeeder carried by said hammer, a cap holding ydevice engaged by said hammer, and a cooking positionet engaging and coacting with said hammer to hold said hammer in a cap loading position slightly away from said anvil, and also to hold said hammer in a cocked position, said trigger being near its pulled position for easy firing when said hammer is in said ycocked position.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 600,337 Richardson Mar. 8, 1898 778,501 Mossberg Dec. 27, 1904 1,098,215 Bean May 26, 1914 `2,866,287 Ryan Dec. 30, 1958 

